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Details
A rare automaton clock scene
the three pairs of bisque-headed dancers with moulded hair and original costumes, rotating on turntable through two planes, with glass-twist waterfall, papier-mâché rustic setting, two-train clock movement and glass dome with painted scene showing an avenue of trees and village on the horizon, on ebonised base with pull-string cylinder movement and going-barrel automaton movement stamped JAC 2755 - 25in. (64cm.) high, probably by Phalibois
the three pairs of bisque-headed dancers with moulded hair and original costumes, rotating on turntable through two planes, with glass-twist waterfall, papier-mâché rustic setting, two-train clock movement and glass dome with painted scene showing an avenue of trees and village on the horizon, on ebonised base with pull-string cylinder movement and going-barrel automaton movement stamped JAC 2755 - 25in. (64cm.) high, probably by Phalibois
Provenance
The Time Museum, sold at Christie's in Mechanical Music, April 20 1989, lot 134.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium